Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA09230 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:40:26 +0100 Subject: Re: Hidden women Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:36:34 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010417233634.AAA23454@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.158]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi daniella -
>We happen to have weaker voices, and
>therefore in a competition for "self assertion" we are likely to
>loose.
But, they are shriller voices, you see, so it is very hard indeed to
actually _listen_ to them for any protracted spell of time.
(Unless they are not, you understand, and it is all we can do to tear
ourselves away....)
It ain't wise to move the sexes away in societal or cultural ways, the
red tent notwithstanding. Beyond biological roles (still not totally
grasped, and always, until perhaps recently or perhaps some uncertain
tomorrow, societally constrained), aggressive capacities could easily be
similar- women prisoners are a high growth segment in US correction
facilities- and the pressures of poverty and access are both being
equalized across communities and businesses and politics.
I once read an interesting monograph about the evolution of human forms,
and how, in the female, with her reduction of the suborbital ridge of the
skull, appears to be more advanced (for lack of another term) in
development. Ever since that time, I've always peered with some alarming
intensity upon the brow of a woman at first meeting, with somewhat an
equal degree of uneasiness about her apprehension of my own rather lumpy
brows....
- Wade
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